Your Body Foundation is Really Out of Sight

Back in April, Vice-President Biden visited the University
Near Here to announce the Bold New Steps the Federal Government was
taking to ensure women would be safe and secure in the nation's
institutions of higher education, and the Education Department's "Office
for Civil Rights" (OCR)
would be leading the charge. Now, people are finally getting
around to noticing what that implies. For example, Michael
Barone:

What the seemingly misnamed Office of Civil Rights is doing here is
demanding the setting up of kangaroo courts and the dispensing of what I
would call marsupial justice against students who are disfavored by
campus denizens because of their gender or race or political attitude.
"Alice in Wonderland's" Red Queen would approve.

Mark
Steyn suggests
Kundera's
committee of the "District Party
Secretariat" would also provide a thumbs-up.

Also commenting on things is Robert
Stacy "Other" McCain, who provides the backstory for the OCR's
insistence that schools prosecute these matters using a "preponderance
of evidence" rule:

This Department of Education letter -- a seeming threat to
deploy Federal Flirting Police -- was, in fact, a belated reaction
to last October's incident at Yale University, where
fraternity pledges undergoing initiation were made to chant rude things
about rape. The offensive fraternity (of which both President Bushes are
alumni) was suspended for five years, but not before the feds
announced an investigation of Yale. And part of the government's
response was to issue this 19-page letter (sent to all
universities) imposing the "preponderance of evidence" rule.

John
Steele Gordon takes special notice of campus guidelines
that consider "humor and jokes about sex in general that make someone feel
uncomfortable" or "elevator eyes" to be verboten.

In other words, if everyone laughs, it's a joke. If one person does not,
it's a crime. It's a good thing that standard isn't countrywide or the
jails would be full of standup comedians. I confess to having no idea
what "elevator eyes" might be, but at my age I'd undoubtedly be
flattered by them.

At my age, I'd forgotten what elevator eyes are,
but eventually got around to remembering that old Temptations
song, linked above.

Given recent headlines, it
would seem that Your Federal Government might want to
clean up its own act before micromanaging colleges' judicial
procedures. But a student would do well to memorize Congressman
Hastings' response to a questioner:

"It would be impossible
for me in a paragraph or a page or two or a tome or volumes one and two
to help you understand the dynamics of these events. I'll leave it at
that."

And it's not just college students and
Congresscritters that have problems with the
whole concept, but also DOD employees:

Ip Man

Yes, this is yet another based-on-true-story movie. In my defense,
I wasn't aware of that before I saw it. Netflix just assured me
(correctly) that I'd like it, and I didn't
look too closely.
And the semi-apocalyptic cover art seemed interesting. (Disclosing
just how this is a true story would slightly spoil the
plot, however.)

It's set in 1930s China. Ip Man is a master of the Wing Chun
school of kung fu, but has (apparently) retired from whatever
it was Wing Chun masters did back then. His character is
impeccable.
His house is huge and impeccably
furnished; he has
a beautiful loving wife and a cute son. His activities
are limited to taking on challenges from occasional
wannabes: the master of a local kung fu studio, or the
leader of a gang of thugs; they are handled with humor
and honor.
Life is good.

But then the Japanese invade China, and life gets very very bad for
Ip Man, his family, and all the other Chinese. He's thrown
out of his house, and forced to work in the lung-clogging
coal mines. But as it turns out, the Japanese general
running the show has a martial arts fetish as well, and
becomes obsessed with setting up fights between his guys
and the Chinese. Which sets up an inevitable conflict.

The filmmakers had a big budget, and spent it well; attention
was lavished on the sets, and many of the scenes are absolutely
bee-you-ti-ful.
Sammo Hung, fondly remembered from the old Martial Law
TV show, is credited with directing the amazing fight scenes.

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